Dr. John Shore

Senior Director, PIA X-Prize

Dr. Shore has an unusual mix of scientific, engineering, business, political, and non-profit experience. He spent 17 years as a research scientist and Branch Head at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, where he was responsible for numerous innovations in computer architecture, software engineering, information theory, and signal processing. His technical publications include 24 peer-reviewed papers, as well as more than 50 reports and conference papers. He holds a U.S. patent in the field of parallel computing, and he published a general-audience book on computing. John was the Founder and served variously as CEO, CTO, and Vice Chairman of Entropic, Inc., a software company that specialized in speech coding, speech synthesis, and speech recognition technology. Entropic was acquired by Microsoft in late 1999. Subsequently, Dr. Shore worked as an independent consultant (technology and business development), and served for a year and a half as Senior Advisor for Science and Technology to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy. During the last three years, Dr. Shore worked as Senior Director of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, serving as the project’s technical, scientific, and government-relations lead. Dr. Shore holds a B.S. in Physics from Yale and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland.